The two Mayans forgot about Jaquar Paw...they were so taken by the 3 "giant" boats and white men.
It would like you and I witnessing a flying saucer land and aliens disembarking.
Suddenly, killing Jaquar Paw was not important to them.
And the Jesuits taught me that the Aztecs were brutally defeated and killed as savages by Cortez & Associates, Inc..
Even the Spaniards knew that you have to kill a lot of people before you can 'save' them...if you get my drift.
My guess is that the Spanish had to use persuasive methods to make it clear to the locals that they were not going to participate in the temple rituals :)
Cannons and swords can be very persuasive.
The more history I read and the more I grow in fellowship with Christ, the more convinced I become that if history as been revised as much in the last 400 years as it has in the last 40, then the conflicts between beleivers in Christ in the New World and those tribal structures that existed prior to the 1500s were mainly a conflict between unbelievers and different groupings of believers, carnal Christians and unbelievers themselves, all in an attempt to pursue a new worldly order, in many respects independent of faith in Christ.
Where faith in Christ existed, I suspect the conflict was that much greater in all domains, bodily, rationally and spiritually.
Perhaps the greatest history lessons of all from that time would be the manifestation of spiritual warfare between believers through faith in Christ and unbelievers at that time.